Cash-carrier



(No Model.)

N. 8v N. E. DILLENBEOK.

CASH CARRIER. No. 487,048. Patented Nov. 29, 1892.

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UNITE TABS PATENT OFFICE.

NOAH DILLENBECK AND NORMAN E. DILLENBECK, OF' SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CASH-CARRlER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,048, dated November 29, 1892. v

Application filedJ'uly 9.1892. Serial N0.439,501. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, NOAH DILLENBEOK and NORMAN E. DILLENBEOK, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention. relates to cash or parcel carriers, and particularly to the mechanisms for propelling the carrier from one station to another along a stationary wire.

Our object is to provide a carrier-propelling mechanism embodying no springs whatever or not dependent upon them and in which a weighted and eccentrically-pivoted wheel is the actual propelling force, and this force is exerted through arms connected to the rim of the wheel and to a slide upon the wire whenever said wheel is released to rotate upon its pivotal arbor.

Our invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation here inafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of our propelling mechanism. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the carrier, the slide and its support, part of the propelling-arm, and the wire. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the carriage and slide and the catch detachably connecting them and part of the propelling-arm connected to the slide, all upon an enlarged scale, the dotted lines showing the positions of the arm and catch when the arm is extended and the catch unhooked.

A is the carrier-wire, properly suspended,

shown as weighted by a filling between part of its spokes. A stud c is secured to the rim of the wheel, to which one end of thesection of the propelling-arm h is pivotally connected, said sections being also hinged or flexibly connected together, and the lower end of said arm is pivotally connected to a slide it, which is mounted upon the parallel wire sides of a frame m, suspended by hangers n from the ceiling, the front of said slide being adapted to engage with the carrier. A catch 0" is secured to the lower end of the arm hand is adapted to hook over the end of the carrierframe and hold the carrier in position for use. A pin 3 through the lever 19 engages with a spoke of the wheel to hold it in its normal.

position, as shown, and by springing the lever outward the wheel is released and rotates upon its arbor, and this forces the arm forward, which propels the slide and carrier until the wheel, arm, and slide assume the positions shown by the dotted lines. As the lower section moves, changing the angle of its bearing upon the slide, the catch is gradually raised out of engagement with thecarrier, until when the slide strikes the hanger it is re leased and is propelled with great velocity over the wire to the central or cashiers station. A like mechanism enables the cashier to return the carrierto the station from which it was sent. A cord 15, connected to said arm and passing over a pulley, enables the operator to draw the arm and wheel back to their normal position.

We are aware that cash-carrier mechanisms have heretofore been patented in which the propelling-arm was secured directly to the drive-shaft, which was rotated by the rotation of a pulley secured to said shaft, and said arm was actuated or swung forward thereby to give the impulse to the carrier; but we are not aware that an eccentrically pivoted weight to the peripheryof which the propelling-arm is connected has heretofore been used to propel the carrier. It will be seen that the eccentrically-pivoted weight exerts a leverage force upon the propelling-arm, which increases geometrically in proportion to the eccentricity of the weight and the distance the arm is connected thereto from the pivot, thereby enabling us to propel the car- 1. A carrier mechanism consisting" in the combination of an oscillatoryan'd eccentrically-pivoted Weight, a carrier, and means to transmit the force exerted by the oscillatioa 0t the weightto the carrier. to giveit the'im-s pulse along the wire trackway.

2. Anloscillatoryandieccentrically-pivotedweight, a propelling-arm connected thereto, a

sl ide coun ected to saidpropelling-arm, and means to detachably connect the carrier to said arm.

3. The combination, with the oscillatory eccentrically-pivoted Weight and the propelling-arm pivotally connected to the rim of said weight and also connected to a slide, of

the slide, a carrier detachably connected to .saidslide, and means to set the weight and arm intheir normal positions and to release them to give the carrier its impulse along its I trackway.

In Witness whereof We have hereunto set o'urliands this 7th day of July, 1892.

NOAH DILLENBEOK. NORMAN- EL. DILLE'N-BEGIQ. Iii-presence of Ho -ARnP. .DENISON,

W. SMITH; 

